Spurred on by this fantastic post by Les Pounder on Tom’s Hardware, I decided to try out a method for using a screen device with a Raspberry Pi. The trick lies in using an HDMI Video Capture dongle to turn the HDMI output of the Pi into a USB input which is picked up as a webcam on your device-with-a-screen.
I used a Raspberry Pi 400 all-in-one machine, but expect this to work with any model of Pi. Obviously, the more recent your version of Pi, the better speed you’ll get.
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